Photography For Real Estate

For years Cactus radio triggers have been the cheapest radio flash triggers for use in manual flash triggering but it looks like Meike has managed to make some triggers that are slightly cheaper and have several features that appear to be a a significant improvement over Cactus triggers. Vince SeStefano has done a nice little [...]

Long time PFRE reader, contributor and Tasmanian real estate photographer Milton Lowe just sent me and article from his local Sunday Tasmanian newspaper that quotes him explaining the benefits of real estate photography. In the article Milton points out that he has been doing real estate photography for 5 years after being a real estate agent for [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve talked about pfretour.com. First of all, for those new readers readers let me recap what pfretour.com is all about. In many markets, independent real estate photographers need to have some method of supplying tours that can compete with the combined tour and photography packages that the big tour companies like [...]

I ran across this cool little tip for shooting video. Most real estate video shooters don’t have the time or equipment to do dolly shots and certainly not crane shots but this little technique can add some class to your property video. For those of you that don’t know about dollies and cranes, they are the way [...]

I think special recognition is in order for Huffington Post because Estella Sneider just sent me an example of coverage that a listing she shot recently for Mauricio Umansky just off sunset strip in LA. The Huffington Post article actually has a link in the article to Estella’s website. I’ve ranted before about the fact [...]

Today is the 20th birthday of the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first browser and web server and ran both on his desk at CERN in 1990. I can clearly remember the first time, sometime during 1993, that I installed the Mosaic browser on my PC at Boeing and first started clicking on hyperlinks. [...]

Every time DxO comes out with a new version of DxO Optics Pro I spend some time with the trial version to see how the new version works. In the past I’ve never purchased it because it felt like it has a lot overlap with Lightroom and its user interface never felt right to me. [...]

Thanks to ‘Kris’ Bjarne Haug for putting me on to another cool way to look at flickr. It’s called Flickriver.com. Flickriver is a web-based Flickr viewer that allows viewing hundreds of flickr photos quickly and easily, in one seamless “river of photos” view, never needing to hit next to load the next page. It also allows [...]

Thanks to Saul in Suffolk Park, NSW for the link to this article in the Sydney Morning Herald about the 5 minute property video that listing agent Ross Savas of Kay & Burton paid $200,000 for to sell the Ilyuka, Portsea mansion near Melbourne, AU. This is proof that top agents are willing to spend [...]

Back in July of 2010, I did a post on how Alberto and Mia Dominguez were finding that their hard work in building their real estate photography business in Nanaimo, BC was paying off. Mia just sent me a link to their new website that they are launching. What a stunning set of images! Very [...]